Sustainable agrifood systems
Gender bias may limit uptake of climate-smart farm practices, study shows
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Farmer education programs that fail to address traditional gender roles may sideline women, limiting use of conservation agriculture techniques, reducing their ability to fight climate change.
Towards inclusive and sustainable grain marketing
Capacity development
CIMMYT’s MasAgro program organized its first forum on grain marketing titled on 9 November.
New findings on gender gap in conservation agriculture
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Interview with Clare Stirling, co-author of a new paper, reveals almost no conservation agriculture studies consider gender and gender relations as a factor that may explain low adoption rates.
Maintaining a diverse landscape in maize- and wheat-based systems to ensure a nutritious diet
Nutrition, health and food security
Agriculture ministers support policies to achieve Africa’s growth potential
Innovations
East and Southern African countries need to formulate and implement appropriate policies to help smallholder farmers access technologies.
Supporting sustainable and scalable changes in cereal systems in South Asia
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The rates of growth of staple crop yields in South Asia are insufficient to meet the projected demands in the region. With 40 percent of the world’s poor living in South Asia, the area composed of eastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal has the largest concentration of impoverished and food insecure people worldwide.